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How do you invoke other programs? What are the pros and
cons of each method?

Answer Posted / adwait

In COBOL - CICS, other programs can be invoked in 2 ways.
1. CALL
2. LINK/XCTL

Pros - Call -
1. Progrm definition not required.
2. no limit of data passing

Cons - Call -
1. Static

LINK / XCTL
This is a CICS way of calling program
Dyanamic calling

Cons - Link -
1. Data can be passed up to fullword binary.

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